Learning Targets

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Learning Targets

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will have:

Knowledge and simple understanding of:
  • the historical context of the Talmud
  • definitions of key terms
  • how key phrases and structures are used within the Talmud
  • how to use Talmudic reference books
  • the basic outline of the page of the Talmud and how to use the resources on the daf (page)

Deep Understanding (and Reasoning skill) of:
  • the role which the Talmud plays in our modern Jewish lives
  • specific concepts around the celebration of Pesach and other Jewish traditions

Skills to:
  • learn a page of the Talmud
  • use reference material and the resources on the page of the Talmud to help analyze and explain the material in the Talmud

Products
(See assessment methods)

Affective targets:
  • Students will value the thought process which exists in the Talmud
  • Students will feel connected to the world of the Talmud
  • Students will feel comfortable talking in the rabbinic parlance
Texts:

Will be provided by the instructor
  • Talmud Pesachim
  • Dictionaries:
    1. The Practical Talmudic Dictionary by Frank
    2. Dictionary of the Talmud by M. Jastrow
    3. Otzer Rashay Teivot (dictionary of acronyms)


  • Tanach